Shopping: The Super Naturals

By Carol Tisch | October 1, 2012

We've been trend-spotting at two of the most important home furnishings trade shows in the world: The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York and High Point Market in North Carolina. Everywhere we saw a new reverence for nature: for tree limbs, leaves, insects, and furniture shaped like flower petals.... Read more »

We've been trend-spotting at two of the most important home furnishings trade shows in the world: The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York and High Point Market in North Carolina. Everywhere we saw a new reverence for nature: for tree limbs, leaves, insects, and furniture shaped like flower petals. Rustic chic is the new buzzword—handcrafted, hand-hewn, reclaimed, and sometimes trending toward a 21st-century iteration of the industrial era's antidote to technology: Craftsman style. Some pieces are now available in Sarasota stores; others can be ordered through local designers.

Recognize the green Seatbelt Chairs ($899) from the movie The Hunger Games?

Into the Woods A hot new brand of heirloom-quality furniture crafted in Bosnia, Manulution renders rustic style hip, with tables ($2,898) showing up in glamorous new guises and some unlikely colors. manulution.com

Michael Thonet's 150-year-old bentwood technology with catuaba wood from the Amazon rainforest and a cushion of supple leather ($7,185)